HyperDic: squandering

English > 1 sense of the word *squandering*:
NOUN	act	squandering	spending resources lavishly and wastefully

squandering > pronunciation
Sounds	skwaa'nderihng
Rhymes	abducting ... zoning: 2044 rhymes with ihng...

English > *squandering*: 1 sense > noun 1, act
Meaning	spending resources lavishly and wastefully.
Example	"more wasteful than the squandering of time"
Narrower	squandermania	prodigious squandering (usually by a government)
Broader	waste, wastefulness, dissipation	useless or profitless activity
Spanish	dispendio, mal empleo
Catalan	dilapidació, dispendi
Verbs	squander	spend extravagantly